On Thursday 20 November 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > > If the other depsolvers don't handle comps, they're rather useless in > the Fedora world, I don't think support for any kind of special grouping is a prerequisite for a depsolver to be useful. I don't remember ever missing that feature when I used apt/smart, and now that I've been using mostly yum for a while, I don't remember ever invoking any of its group* commands. Plain old metapackages have worked well for me in the (quite rare) cases where I've needed something like that. comps/yum grouping have their own valid purposes for different use cases, but saying a depsolver without support for that is rather useless is in my opinion more than a little extreme. > where are grouping is done exclusively via comps. Not really - we also have metapackages for grouping and new ones do get introduced every now and then. See for example git-all, perl-core, R. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
